growning dwarf baby's tear on lava rock

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well, I have removed almost all of my plants. I have constructed a couple of &quot;hills&quot; made of lava rocks in one of my ...

well, I have removed almost all of my plants. I have constructed a couple of "hills" made of lava rocks in one of my tanks. I was just wondering if I sporadically tied the baby's tear to different lava rock on my mounds if it would eventually grow together and cover all of the lava rocks or do I need to cover the whole thing initially?

I plan to also put in some dwarf hair grass on the sand, anubias (both standard size and nano) on the rocks to break up the baby's tear, more Ludwigas in the background and maybe a Nymphea Lotus.....(though now that I type that as opposed to thinking it I realize that the Ludwigas and Lotus would pull all the attention to the bright red plants IF they were set together as I originally planned.)

I think my lights are okay. I have two 18" Florasun lights. They grow plants fairly well. To be honest I am not comfortable with upgrading my lighting as my Bichir will not appreciate it and after all, it is really HIS tank :D.

same experience as redchigh, HC is super hard to grow properly, i have a petco near me that has it on lava rocks, but i have no idea how they do it, they say they are using standard t8 bulbs of an unknown spectrum and dont dose ferts. I got it once, but the HC quickly died off. Water conditions might need to be very good, but considering it was a petco, i dont know how good their water really is...

same experience as redchigh, HC is super hard to grow properly, i have a petco near me that has it on lava rocks, but i have no idea how they do it, they say they are using standard t8 bulbs of an unknown spectrum and dont dose ferts. I got it once, but the HC quickly died off. Water conditions might need to be very good, but considering it was a petco, i dont know how good their water really is...